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Sat, 25 May 2019 12:13:53 +0100FeedCreator 1.7.3Terrorist Attack at Free Speech Event in Texas: An Eyewitness Accounthttp://amilimani.com/index.php/archives/post/terrorist-attack-at-free-speech-event-in-texas-an-eyewitness-account
<img height="72" align="left" src=""><p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="ngg-singlepic ngg-none alignleft" alt="head-shot-geller.jpg" style="width: 415px; height: 297px; border-width: 10px; border-style: solid; margin: 10px; float: left;" src="http://www.amilimani.com/images/content/gallery/terror-and-free-speech/head-shot-geller.jpg" />Just recently two tickets and invitation had arrived for me to attend an important event on Sunday, May 3, 2015, an occurrence with major repercussions that few would have imagined but that underscored the occasion&rsquo;s significance. The tickets came in an envelope from fellow counter-jihadist and friend <a href="http://www.amilimani.com/saluting-pamela-geller-a-champion-of-liberty/">Pamela Geller</a> of the American Freedom Defense Initiative.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><!--more-->While the event was billed as a gathering to determine who could draw the best cartoon of the Muslim prophet Mohammad, I knew it was much more than just that: Indeed, the cartoon contest was a rallying point for cartoonists and freedom-loving Americans to stand their ground on their Constitutional, First Amendment rights, including and especially freedom of speech and expression. The occasion also represented a unity rally to stand with the victims of the terrorist attacks in Paris, France, on January 7, 2015.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">This venue was chosen as a defiant response to a Muslim group that had held a conference entitled &ldquo;Stand With the Prophet Against Terror and Hate&rdquo; in January in the very same building in Garland, Texas. The cartoons were not drawn to offend Muslims, although it was undeniable that they would. The underlying message of this gathering was to send a critical, loud and clear message to the world that we lovers of freedom do not tolerate the demonstrated intolerance of the adherents of the &ldquo;religion of peace,&rdquo; and we stand firm for our values and for the U.S. Constitution.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="ngg-singlepic ngg-none aligncenter" alt="11036031_910136725704415_363729378527962220_n.jpg" style="margin: 10px; width: 545px; height: 308px;" src="http://www.amilimani.com/images/content/gallery/terror-and-free-speech/11036031_910136725704415_363729378527962220_n.jpg" /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Interestingly enough, Muslim fanatics lash out in savagery and barbarism when they perceive that the sanctity of their &ldquo;religion of peace&rdquo; is affronted in the form of a cartoon, a video, a book, or an individual burning of a Quran. Yet, these same fanatics feel free not only to insult other peoples&rsquo; religions but also to wreak all kinds of horrific and violent acts upon them. Defaming, insulting, and desecrating others&rsquo; beliefs is in the fabric of Islam itself, as I know too well from personal experience with Islam in my homeland of Iran.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">By contrast, the Muslim event held on January 2015 in Garland, Texas, was convened to eliminate free speech or any expression, verbal and/or artwork depicting the Islamic prophet Mohammad in a negative light. Atop this Muslim fanatical group&rsquo;s agenda was a proposed U.N. resolution which held that any negative speech about Mohammed or Islam anywhere in the world (including any drawings of Islam&rsquo;s prophet) should be disallowed and the writer/artist sanctioned. While they thought the power of the U.N. was universal, they were badly mistaken. The U.S. Constitution clearly states that no foreign agreement, U.N. resolutions or any treaty can supersede the Constitution or the Bill of Rights, an integral part of that ruling document. The First Amendment makes it abundantly clear that the right to free speech (which includes artwork) &ldquo;shall not be infringed.&rdquo;</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="ngg-singlepic ngg-none alignleft" alt="garland-isis1-300x155.jpeg" style="margin: 10px; float: left;" src="http://www.amilimani.com/images/content/gallery/terror-and-free-speech/garland-isis1-300x155.jpeg" />In general, devout Muslims are always offended by a particular individual drawing a portrait of the prophet of Islam or burning of a Quran at one end of the world, and the fanatics react with mayhem, violence and killings wherever they live, perhaps on the other end of the world. Nevertheless, whatever is drawn is protected by the First Amendment in this country. So, if someone makes a video or draws a cartoon offensive to Muslims, is the video or the cartoon to blame for inciting riots? Did it violate freedom of expression? If so, it is the duty of the courts to decide the matter and mete out the appropriate punishment and not the prerogative of the violent mob to unleash its wrath on buildings and innocent people.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">As the date for the event I was to attend neared, I was looking forward to seeing many familiar and also new faces who shared my views on Islam, but tingling apprehensiveness had fused itself to my positive anticipation. As a life-long expert on the subject of Islam, I felt that this event&mdash;more than anything else Pamela could have done&mdash;would be the target of a violent terrorist attack in the name of the so-called religion of peace, either real and explosive or on social media at the very least. The attack on Charlie Hebdo was till fresh in my mind, of course, but I put my apprehensions aside. Nothing was going to stop me from attending.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">When the day finally arrived, despite occasional twinges I was more than ready to be counted among those who felt passionately about the First Amendment. I would stand up to Islam and the PC machine that had enabled Muslim fanatics to gain so much access to this country already, in the form of Muslim Brotherhood sympathizers appointed within our government, for example. I reminded myself of the inviolable rights set forth in our Bill of Rights and told myself that not attending would mean I let the radical Muslim/jihadists win through inaction.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">As I turned into the driveway at the art exhibit and free-speech event in Garland on May 3, 2015, I was astonished at the large police presence already there. Some of the cops were dressed in tactical gear and carrying AR-15s. The security was ubiquitous, almost as if something untoward had already happened. At the gate, I was asked for my tickets, which I produced, and was then waved into the expansive parking lot.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="ngg-singlepic ngg-none aligncenter" alt="Garland-facebookJumbo.jpg" style="margin: 10px; float: left;" src="http://www.amilimani.com/images/content/gallery/terror-and-free-speech/Garland-facebookJumbo.jpg" /> As I walked towards the door of the convention center, it was impossible to miss the looks of trepidation on the faces of those who entered with me. It wasn&rsquo;t an expression of paranoia, per se, but rather one betraying some anxiety. Such a feeling was understandable: As people familiar with Islam and its proponents&rsquo; efforts to curtail our free speech, the attendees clearly knew that an event of this sort could be an ideal opportunity for a terrorist attack. But I could also see relief in their eyes when these intrepid participants noticed the police presence there.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">When I got inside, other police were waiting there with a metal detector. As I stepped through, the buzzer sounded&mdash;it was my cell phone. Security ran the metal-detecting wand over me, found the phone, checked it out to make sure it worked, and then handed it back to me.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">By the time I proceeded into the large room, my apprehension had abated. Further distracting me were people I had never met before who walked up to me, shook my hand and asked if I&rsquo;d take photos with them. They must have read my numerous articles about Islam, and I found myself in a friendly atmosphere without having any expectation of such a reception. The longer this reception continued, the less anxious I became. And seeing police inside the event gave me a greater sense of assurance.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The event was to run from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM., but at around 6 PM a burly police officer, fully decked out in tactical gear, took to the stage and announced that shots had been fired outside, a cop had been hit and was rushed to the hospital, and the assailants were down. The police wanted us to move to a new, safer room. We hadn&#39;t heard any shots, so this was news to most of us. As I stood looking around in shock, I couldn&rsquo;t help but notice that those who had appeared anxious before were now obviously revisiting those emotions, including myself.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I heard that the SWAT team, stationed at the Culwell Center for the event, responded to the shooting in seconds and secured the scene as the bomb squad began to investigate the vehicle used by the gunmen.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I felt somewhat as I had on 9/11 when rumors trampled sensibility and reality. &ldquo;Twelve, maybe more, planes have been hijacked, and they could be headed here or there.&rdquo; We had no idea what would fall from the sky or where, and the sense of vulnerability was widely shared.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="ngg-singlepic ngg-none alignleft" alt="garland-fullmoon.jpg" style="margin: 10px; float: left;" src="http://www.amilimani.com/images/content/gallery/terror-and-free-speech/garland-fullmoon.jpg" />Finally, we were taken away from the convention center in buses to a safer and undisclosed location. As we waited, everyone was glued to his/her iPhones/iPads or other electronic devices in search of any news of the incident. Later on, we were informed that we were unable to go back to our cars in the parking lot because of the possibility that explosive devices had been planted around the parking area or near our vehicles.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">At the end of the night, we all provided a written statement of the incident to the FBI, and then they allowed us to go home one by one and return the next day to pick up our vehicles.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The Garland Police Department officers were all heroes, in my opinion. Heroes appear when circumstances call upon them. Heroes are those extraordinary people who make sacrifices and become agents of historical and social change. My hat goes off to all of them.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Violent Islam</p><p style="text-align: justify;">What this Muslim terrorist attack underscores once more and for what seems to be the umpteenth time, nothing prompts the hundreds of ordinarily feuding and fighting sects of Islam to come together like the slightest disrespect shown to the founder of their religion or their religious sanctity. With the slightest hint from their vested-interest clergy and politicians, mobs of fanatical Muslims in countries around the world will pour into the streets with frenzy, burning, destroying buildings and killing people they suspect as complicit in defaming Islam, even if completely innocent.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The Garland terrorist attack highlights the question once again: In the name of &ldquo;tolerance,&rdquo; should non-Muslims adopt intolerant laws that suffocate their freedoms in order to protect Muslim religious fanaticism and &ldquo;sensibilities?&rdquo; Would not Muslims need to do the same for Christians, Jews and adherents of all other religions, as well as freethinkers and atheists? I hardly need chronicle here all the vile things devotees of Islam have done and continue to do and say about the Jews, for example, both during the life of Muhammad and to this day.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Atrocities committed across the Muslim world by Muslims against other Muslims and faiths are legion. Egypt&rsquo;s Coptic Christians have been fleeing their ancestral home in droves, as have been Christians in Iraq. Mali&rsquo;s Ansar Dine, overrun by jihadist Muslims, is experiencing the destructions of Sufi temples and Christian churches. Bombing Christian churches and killing Christians in Nigeria is all in a day&rsquo;s work for people of the &ldquo;religion of peace.&rdquo;</p><p style="text-align: justify;">It stands to reason that the Muslims who feel so offended by the uncomplimentary portrayal of Islam and its prophet need to take a close look at their own individual as well as collective treatment of non-Muslims. Muslims do not have the right to engage in atrocities against others while demanding that no one in any form or shape offend their religious sensibilities.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Islamic forces are attacking freedom of speech, a right greatly cherished by a free people, with tremendous effectiveness.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="ngg-singlepic ngg-none alignright" alt="150503231305-garland-texas-shooting-interiors-large-169.png" style="margin: 10px; float: left;" src="http://www.amilimani.com/images/content/gallery/terror-and-free-speech/150503231305-garland-texas-shooting-interiors-large-169.png" />Right now in this country, as well as other Western countries, individuals who dare to voice the truth about Islam, its barbaric sharia laws and savage practices are subjected to threats, harassment and ruinous lawsuits. Businesses and organizations with the slightest deviation from the Islamic dictates face boycotts and the loss of media advertising sponsors.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Along this line and among other such groups, the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas and its supporter the Council on American-Islamic Relations or &ldquo;CAIR&rdquo;&mdash;itself designated a terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates&mdash;represent a clear and imminent danger to our country and our principles, which include the priceless freedoms of speech and belief. Islam does not recognize these sacred principles and despises them. Islam fights freedom of conscience, speech and expression with all its powers. Freedom of speech is just about non-existent wherever Islam rules, in fact. Freedom of belief and religion other than Islam is clearly rejected and often severely persecuted.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">My advice to these pretenders of civility and devotees of respect: Please go to your country of origin and grant your own minority citizens respect and tolerance, before pressuring the world body to enact laws that criminalize &ldquo;defamation&rdquo; of Islam and its prophet. Firstly, Islam must end its age long-standing practice of defaming, imprisoning, and killing religious minorities to earn reciprocity from non-Muslim people. Indeed, respect must be earned, not terrorized into existence.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Unfortunately, terrorist attacks on events such as at Garland, Texas, only prove the points that Islam is incompatible with freedom and civilization, and that the religion&rsquo;s most fervent practitioners in fact are dangerous and anything but peaceful. In this regard, Geller and her group were proved absolutely correct in their efforts to alert the world to the perils represented by unchecked Islamization in America and elsewhere. In retrospect, I&rsquo;m proud I attended such a watershed event, demonstrating what the free world is truly up against. Now, the only question is, will we wake up in time?</p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Amil Imani is the author of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Obama-meets-Ahmadinejad-Amil-Imani/dp/1926800028/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1">Obama Meets Ahmadinejad</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Operation-Persian-Gulf-Amil-Imani/dp/0983690901/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1317324420&amp;sr=8-3">Operation Persian Gulf.</a></p>Thu, 07 May 2015 09:27:22 +0100US ConstitutionTexasTerrorist AttackRobert SpencerPamela GellerMuslimsIslamic TerrorismIslamGarland PoliceFreedom of SpeechFree Speech EventCharlie HebdoAmil ImaniThe Virus of Islam: Can It Be Cured?http://amilimani.com/index.php/archives/post/the-virus-of-islam-can-it-be-cured
<img height="72" align="left" src=""><p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft" style="margin: 10px; float: left;" alt="islamicvirus-header" width="396" height="300" src="http://www.amilimani.com/images/content/gallery/islamic-virus/islamicvirus-header.jpg" />Risking the violation of political correctness, decades of closely and carefully studying Islam, has led me to the following observation: Islam is a socio-cultural viral disease that invades any vulnerable host with its malignancy, while simultaneously devouring its own adherents.<!--more--></p><p style="text-align: justify;">In other words, Islam is like a deadly, contagious disease. Once it invades the mind of its victim, this debilitating disease is capable of transforming him or her to a helpless pawn that has no choice but to execute what he or she is directed to do.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Of the reported 1.6 billion Muslims in the world, millions are already trapped in the terminal stages of this affliction, while millions of others are rapidly joining them. The people enslaved with the extreme cases of Islamic mental disease are highly infectious. They actively work to transmit the disease to others, while they themselves engage in horrific acts of mayhem and violence to demonstrate their unconditional obedience to the dictates of the Islamic cult of violence; For example, the Islamic State or &ldquo;ISIS/ISIL.&rdquo;</p><p><span style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.6em;">Islam like a mental retrovirus has mutated into numerous varieties and degrees of severity over the past 1,400 years. Everyone born in a Muslim family, as well as those who convert to Islam, contract a particular mutation of the Islamic virus. As is the case with all retroviruses, the Islamic virus burrows deeply into the person and erupts, from time-to-time with potentially devastating consequences.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="ngg-singlepic ngg-right alignright" style="margin: 10px; float: left;" alt="islamicvirus-truth" width="403" height="327" src="http://www.amilimani.com/images/content/gallery/islamic-virus/islamicvirus-truth.jpg" />The Islamic virus first divests the person of his most fundamental human attribute. It takes away his right to make decisions himself and absolves him and in return, of any responsibility for his actions rendered in blind obedience to it.</p><p>The founder of Islam, Mohammad, insured the faith would remain on its intended mission by providing it with its manual of murder and mayhem, the Quran. The Quran is the incubator of the virus of Islam, and Muslims are the carriers of this disease who communicates it to others while they themselves simultaneously are devoured by it.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Even a cursory glance at Islam clearly shows a history of lashing out at non-Muslim societies under the direct leadership of Muhammad, a practice that has remained on its mission to this day. This inherent divisiveness is clearly evident by the internecine violence within the ranks of believers commencing immediately following the death of Muhammad.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">At the global level, the pathology and cognitive derangement systemic to Islam have given rise to the world&#39;s most intolerant, backward, and impoverished societies.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">It is in the very design of Islam to engage in violence. Muslims find ready justifications in the Quran--a book they believe authored word for word by the one and only creator of the universe, Allah--to do so. To a Muslim, anyone, even others who profess the same faith, can be a legitimate target of violence since there is no unifying Islamic doctrine, while the Quran is greatly amenable to self-serving interpretation.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">It is indeed simplistic to contend that Islamic terrorism is Islam&#39;s problem and that it is self-defeating or it will eventually defeat itself. Islamic terrorism is indeed that aspect of Islam that has lashed out toward the non-Muslim world from its inception. It is seen when the Islamic armies sallied out of the Arabian Peninsula to vanquish by the sword people far and near. It is indeed a great folly and a pathological denial of reality for the world to turn a blind eye to the ever-virulent acting-out characteristic of Islam, irrespective of its different forms and various degrees of its severity and duration.</p><p><img class="ngg-singlepic ngg-none alignleft" style="margin: 10px; float: left;" alt="islamicvirus-3" width="500" height="375" src="http://www.amilimani.com/images/content/gallery/islamic-virus/islamicvirus-3.jpg" />As is the case with contagious disease, there is no minimal level of acceptable risk. The only acceptable risk with virulent Islam is its complete decimation. Otherwise, jihadism will raise its head time and again and inflict its deadly venom on its victims.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Islam itself is a vestige of a long-ago primitive people who lived and died by the sword. Muslims do not recognize the legitimacy of coexistence. They never have, and the Quran explicitly divides the world into two camps: The believers and the non-believers. And it is the sacred duty of the believers to cleanse Allah&#39;s world of all non-Muslims.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In short, Islam is indeed a deadly, socio-cultural communicable virus that is immune to general methods of treatments. The Islam virus has mutated into numerous forms immediately upon the death of its creator. This mutated disease shares only a common name, such as the term used for describing the common cold. In actual fact, Islam is about destruction within itself as well as the &quot;other.&quot;</p><p> </p><p>Amil Imani is the author of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Obama-meets-Ahmadinejad-Amil-Imani/dp/1926800028/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1">Obama Meets Ahmadinejad</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Operation-Persian-Gulf-Amil-Imani/dp/0983690901/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1317324420&amp;sr=8-3">Operation Persian Gulf.</a></p>Wed, 08 Apr 2015 20:43:05 +0100Virus of IslamQuranMuslimIslamic cultIslamThere Will Be Bloodhttp://amilimani.com/index.php/archives/post/there-will-be-blood
<img height="72" align="left" src=""><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><img class="ngg-singlepic ngg-none" alt="WuA_Header1" style="margin: 10px; float: left;" src="http://www.amilimani.com/images/content/gallery/blood/WuA_Header1.jpg" /></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:16px;">From Northern Iraq to Northeastern Syria, from Nairobi, Kenya to Benghazi, Libya, from Lahore, Pakistan to the rugged mountains of Mali and Afghanistan, militant Muslims have executed tens of thousands of their fellow Muslims and are on a killing rampage against Christians. The world is shocked and distressed.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:16px;">The Muslims&#39; killing campaign did not end with their defeat at the gates of Vienna. Their eviction from Spain was a temporary forced retreat. But now Muslims have, in huge numbers, penetrated the gates of every city and town in Europe and North America without even having to use their swords.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:16px;">Distressed by the Muslims&#39; trouble-making and killing sprees, civilized nations are bending over backwards in the hope of placating them and helping them join the family of humanity by admitting hordes of immigrants and offering them all manner of hospitality and assistance. All these gestures remain in vain and to no avail. Many of the new arrivals, deeply infected by the Islamic ethos, find it impossible to assimilate in the host countries. Instead, they strive to impose their defunct order which is the cause of their own backwardness and inhumanity on the host nations.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><img alt="" style="width: 460px; height: 300px; margin: 10px; float: left;" src="http://www.amilimani.com/images/content/gallery/blood/blood.jpg" />The non-Muslim world is at its wits&#39; end. No accommodation or kindness seems to stem the tide of Islamic violence. Countless numbers of proposals have been advanced in dealing with this systemic Islamic disorder. Some feel that, in general, Muslims are law-abiding citizens of their adopted countries and it is only a minority that is responsible for the violence and mayhem. Thinking along these lines has prompted people to say that the solution to Islamic violence rests with Islamic leaders. That is, Islamic leaders should speak up and condemn jihad and jihadists.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:16px;">Western armchair theorizers and wishful thinkers need to take time and study the Islamic system in order to avoid making demands on Muslim leaders-demands that will never be met because they are completely unrealistic.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:16px;">Islam presently has its stranglehold over on a billion humans, posing an existential threat to all non-Muslims. When this billion and a half adhere to the pathological belief of Islam and use it as their marching orders of life, the rest of humanity ignores this threat at its peril.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:16px;">Islam, yet again, has risen from the ashes and is on a campaign of conquest throughout the world. Hordes of fanatical Islamic foot soldiers are striving to kill and get killed. What they all want is the opportunity to discharge their homicidal-suicidal impulses, on their way to Allah&#39;s promised glorious paradise. And in the background, granting the foot soldiers&#39; wishes, are their handlers, the puppeteers, who pull the strings and detonate these human bombs. Those who cherish life must recognize these emissaries of death -- what makes them, what motivates them, and how best to defend against them.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:16px;">America, with a long tradition of protecting religious freedom, still clings to the &quot;hands off&quot; practice of leaving alone any doctrine or practice billed as religion. A thorny problem is in deciding what constitutes a religion and who is to make that call. There is a glimmer of hope that the American people are finally waking up to the deceit and the menace of the creed called Islam. Their opposition to the building of the mosque at Ground Zero showed that the creeping Islamization of America is indeed something to stand against and prevent before it is too late.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:16px;">As more and more Muslims arrive in America, as they reproduce with great fecundity, as they convert the disenchanted and minorities, and as petrodollar-flush Muslims and Muslim treasuries supply generous funds, they gather more power to undermine a serious challenge to the American system of governance-representative democracy. As for democracy, the rule of the people, Muslims have no use for it at all. Muslims believe that Allah&#39;s rule must govern the world in the form of a Caliphate-a theocracy. Making a mockery of democracy, subverting its workings, and ignoring its provisions is a Muslim&#39;s way of falsifying what he already believes to be a sinful and false system of governance invented by infidels.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:16px;">I have been sounding the alarm for decades about the ever-increasing menace Islam is posing to America and our way of life. Apathy, political correctness, and massive Islamic lobbying have successfully prevented the public from truly grasping the all-pervasive Islamic assault.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><img alt="" style="width: 361px; height: 269px; margin: 10px; float: right;" src="http://www.amilimani.com/images/content/gallery/blood/5main_terrorism-extremism.png" />Time and again we are told by the politically correct &quot;experts&quot; not to worry about Islam posing a threat to our way of life. We&#39;re also told, not to worry about the horrific things that are happening on the other side of the world! If Muslims act heinously toward non-Muslims, it is just the way things are in those countries and it is hardly any of our business. This is the same attitude that set the Islamization of Europe on a seemingly irreversible track. One European country after another is rapidly buckling under the weight of Islamism.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:16px;">With heavy assurances like this, coming from so many know-it-all authoritative figures, we can sleep soundly without the aid of sleeping pills. Yet, the Islam problem is very real and deadly. Neither the pronouncements of the experts, nor the tranquilizing pills of the mind can make it go away. Islam will continue its bloody conquest.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:16px;">Islam is a belief of blood. It lives and thrives on blood. It can be animal blood, enemy blood or even its own blood. Unless we see the handwriting on the wall and deal with them accordingly, before very long, America will have to turn its deed over to the new Islamic invaders or rebel and fight block by block, city by city. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:16px;">That&#39;s when there will Be Blood.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:16px;">Amil Imani is the author of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Obama-meets-Ahmadinejad-Amil-Imani/dp/1926800028/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1">Obama Meets Ahmadinejad</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Operation-Persian-Gulf-Amil-Imani/dp/0983690901/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1317324420&amp;sr=8-3">Operation Persian Gulf.</a></span></p>Mon, 04 Aug 2014 13:56:18 +0100MuslimsIslamic violenceIslamShame, Shame, Brandeis Universityhttp://amilimani.com/index.php/archives/post/shame-shame-brandeis-university
<img height="72" align="left" src=""><p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="alignleft" title="Ayaan Hirsi Ali" alt="shame-2" style="margin: 10px; float: left;" width="308" height="280" src="http://www.amilimani.com/images/content/gallery/shame/shame-2.jpg" />For decades, I have been sounding the alarm about the ever-increasing menace Islam is posing to America and our way of life. Apathy, political correctness, and massive Islamic lobbying have successfully prevented the public from truly grasping the all-pervasive Islamic assault.<!--more--></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Freedom of speech, a right greatly cherished by a free people, is an area where Islamic forces are attacking with great effectiveness.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Individuals who dare to voice the truth about Islam, its barbaric Sharia laws and savage practices are subjected to harassment, threatened with and subjected to ruinous lawsuits. Businesses and organizations with the slightest deviation from the Islamic dictates face boycotts and the loss of media advertising sponsors.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Concurrently, much of academia and many universities throughout the land are generously funded by Islamic governments and organizations to market a highly sanitized and distorted version of Islam to young impressionable minds. Even at the primary school level, a hugely dishonest portrayal of Islam is included in books pupils are required to study.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In these deceptive presentations, Islam appears to be a religion of peace, tolerance, and brotherhood. To further lull the people into accepting this dishonest &ldquo;taqiyyah-driven&rdquo; fraud, Islam is marketed simply as another version of the Abrahamic religions&mdash;Judaism and Christianity. Thus, there is nothing alien about Islam, the scheme aims to promote.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="ngg-singlepic ngg-none alignnone" title="Amilimani.com" alt="shame-1" style="margin: 10px; float: left;" width="645" height="363" src="http://www.amilimani.com/images/content/gallery/shame/shame-1.gif" /> Islam mistreats women and girls, as Ms. Ayaan Hirsi Ali contends? Nothing could be further from the truth, the shameless Islamists say. The facts on the ground speak otherwise and most emphatically support Ms. Ali&rsquo;s contention. Even a cursory examination of the Islamic scripture clearly shows women&rsquo;s chattel status. The cruel and unjust ways that <a href="women%20are%20treated">women are treated</a> in Islamic lands are simply based on a belief of misogyny called Islam. It is this belief that the highly self-invested Islamic clergy and their patrons want to impose on the rest of humanity. It is exactly people like Ms. Ayaan Hirsi Ali who both need and demand the widest forum to show the public the true face of Islam and the danger it poses for all that free people cherish.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Truth is not always welcomed and can often be greatly disturbing. But, truth is the best weapon against evil and falsehood. When critics of Islam point out the horrific teachings of the Quran, they don&#39;t make them up. They cite surahs from their holy book, surahs that exhort the Muslims to carry out all kinds of evil deeds against non-Muslims.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Is there anyone in this world who doesn&#39;t read, see, or hear about the daily Islamic atrocities performed by these savages, with every act justified on the basis of Allah&#39;s holy book?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Qur&#39;an 8:12 &quot;I shall terrorize the infidels. So wound their bodies and incapacitate them because they oppose Allah and His Apostle.&quot;</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Qur&#39;an 33:26 &quot;Allah made the Jews leave their homes by terrorizing them so that you killed some and made many captive. And He made you inherit their lands, their homes, and their wealth. He gave you a country you had not traversed before.&quot;</p><p style="text-align: justify;">And now, the brazen exercise of Islamic intimidation has forced a previously distinguished American institution of higher learning, Brandies University, into the shameful and cowardly act of rescinding its invitation to Ayaan Hersi Ali to address its 2014 commencement class and giving her an honorary degree. I believe she has earned that honor by educating the public about the true nature of Islam, and thereby suffering an incredible amount of harassment and hostility.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Ms. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, is an internationally acclaimed and outspoken defender of women&rsquo;s rights. Ms. Ali hails from a Muslim family in Somalia where she experienced first-hand how horrifically Islam treats women. She has shown immense courage in speaking the truth.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The courage of this displaced champion of women&rsquo;s rights stands in stark contrast to the cowardice of the Brandeis University president. The purported faculty and students who engaged in a group act of dishonoring the commitment made to this distinguished champion of free speech is despicable.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="alignright" alt="shame-3" style="margin: 10px; float: left;" width="594" height="243" src="http://www.amilimani.com/images/content/gallery/shame/shame-3.png" />The cowardice of the responsible Brandeis culprits, with its president at the top, is more shameful for the fact that they capitulated to the pressures from the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), an organization found by the American courts to be a supporter of the officially designated terror group, Hamas.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Hamas and its supporter CAIR represent a clear and imminent danger to our country and our principles which include the priceless freedoms of speech and belief. Islam does not recognize these sacred principles. Islam fights them with all in its powers. Freedom of speech is just about non-existent wherever Islam rules. Freedom of belief and religion, other than Islam, is clearly rejected and often severely persecuted.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">It is evident that Muslims are unable to withstand honest scrutiny of their beliefs and practices, since they do everything they can to silence courageous people like Ms. Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Is Ms. Ayaan Hirsi Ali misrepresenting Islam? Is she defaming Islam? If so, why not point out her misrepresentations and defamation with facts? Telling about Islam&#39;s systemic dehumanizations of women is stating a fact. The evidence supporting this point is overwhelming. Let facts battle it out instead of unleashing the huge power and funds of numerous governments and organizations to silence one solitary individual.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="alignleft" alt="shame-4" style="margin: 10px; float: left;" width="211" height="217" src="http://www.amilimani.com/images/content/gallery/shame/shame-4.gif" />Ironically, Islamic scripture labels Jews with unspeakable epithets and even denies them as human beings. These very same Jews, custodians of a Jewish university in the land of the free, lacked the spine to stand firm in honoring their commitment and telling CAIR to take its Islamic suffocating ethos elsewhere.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Humanity is facing a deeply troubling dilemma. On the one hand is the desire of enlightened people to forge a world of diverse people into one universal society ruled by peace and justice for everyone. On the other hand, Islamists are hell-bent on imposing their Stone-Age system on this world.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The Islamic clergy with great vested self-interests, market their ware&mdash;sugarcoated Islam&mdash;to expand their parasitic rules over people. They keep ranting about the importance of accepting things on faith, denigrate reason, dangle carrots and sticks, and demand unconditional surrender in return for guaranteed bliss and salvation. The masses toe the line, support the clergy&rsquo;s lavish parasitic lifestyle and the charade continues. It works like a charm. Use the Jihad of the sword when it can and use the &ldquo;Soft Jihad&rdquo; until the sword can be unsheathed to finish the job.</p><p><img class="ngg-singlepic ngg-none aligncenter" alt="shame-5" style="margin: 10px; float: left;" width="500" height="333" src="http://www.amilimani.com/images/content/gallery/shame/shame-5.jpg" />Islam promoters never present the naked face of Islam. They never speak of the Islam that thrives on hate and violence. They never mention <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo6uRwwnFH0">throwing acid</a> in the face of women who fail to don the hijab or girls just going to school. They don&rsquo;t speak of flogging people for sporting non-Islamic haircuts,<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOIbgd5qcrg"> stoning women to death</a> for violating sexual norms and other forms of Islamic brutalities such as <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYDyLkqc4x4">Honor Killing</a>. They never mention child marriages in Islam that allows a man of any age to marry a child as young as nine years of age.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Alas, alas. Brandeis University failed itself as an institution committed to the freedom of inquiry and enlisted itself into the infamous ranks of the censor-able cowards. Shame, shame, Brandeis University.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Amil Imani is the author of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Obama-meets-Ahmadinejad-Amil-Imani/dp/1926800028/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1">Obama Meets Ahmadinejad</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Operation-Persian-Gulf-Amil-Imani/dp/0983690901/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1317324420&amp;sr=8-3">Operation Persian Gulf.</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>Sun, 13 Apr 2014 08:12:32 +0100Political CorrectnessIslamistsislamicIslamhonor killingBrandeis UniversityAyaan Hisi AliAmil ImaniPresident Obama Confronts Putinhttp://amilimani.com/index.php/archives/post/president-obama-confronts-putin
<img height="72" align="left" src=""><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><img class="ngg-singlepic ngg-none alignleft" title="Crimea Explained" alt="crimea-explained" style="margin: 10px; float: left;" width="384" height="288" src="http://www.amilimani.com/images/content/gallery/crimea-4/crimea-explained.jpg" /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">Some keep calling Obama weak, particularly in dealing with foreign policy. He is seen as a vacillating and indecisive person who always opts to run away from problems rather than take a stand and solve them. Now, these are all perceptions. In the interest of fairness, we should go with facts. A good case that clearly refutes these allegations about Obama is the way he is handling the Crimea crisis.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">The minute President Obama was informed about the Russians&#39; invasion of the Crimean peninsula, he tossed his putter into the sand trap, kicked his golf bag so hard that it tipped over and then yelled, &quot;that damned Putin. I&#39;ll learn him a lesson.&quot; His entourage became really alarmed. Even the tough Secret Service guys looked at each other with visible apprehension.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;Yeah, I&#39;ll learn that sonofobitch a lesson he won&#39;t ever forget,&quot; he then kicked the wheel of his golf cart and screamed, &quot;ouch. That god damned wheel. I think it broke my toe.&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">Two Secret Service guys rushed forward and each grabbed the fuming and cursing man&#39;s arms and gently set him on the golf cart.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;Where&#39;s Joe? Where&#39;s my Vice President? Where is he when I need him? I bet he is in bed for his two-hour mid-day nap or someplace giving a speech, getting his damned foot in his mouth and saddling me with the chore of taking it out for him.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">Damned, do I need a helper like him? Like I need this darned broken toe, I do.&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><img class="alignleft" alt="2-crimea" width="450" height="245" style="text-align: justify; margin: 10px; float: left;" src="http://www.amilimani.com/images/content/gallery/crimea/2-crimea.jpg" />&quot;Mr. President, here is the Vice President,&quot; a Secret Service man hands Obama a phone, saying &quot;he&#39;s a bit groggy and sounded very agitated when he was awakened. He yelled at our man, &quot;doesn&#39;t Barack know this is my nap time? Couldn&#39;t he have the decency of waiting until I woke up? Just another lousy hour?&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;Hey Joe, get your sleepy behind over here, on the double. Hear me? On the double&quot; screams the still highly agitated Chief Executive and as he throws the hand phone in the sand trap next to the putter.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">By this time, a couple of medical people, headed by a doctor, arrive and got busy taking his shoe off to immediately minister to the victimized toe.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;Ouch, damn it. Easy taking the sock off,&quot; the injured president yells at the nurse who was a bit rough in doing his job.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;Yes sir. Sorry sir,&quot; sheepishly apologizes the offending nurse, holds his breath as he keeps on trying to remove the sweaty sock that seemed determined to continue cradling the Chief&#39;s foot. The clinging sock reminded the nurse of some of the Leader&#39;s adoring public who love him so that they never want to be separated from him.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;Sir, it&#39;s your pinkie.&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;What?&quot; Yells the chief.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;Your small toe, sir. Not broken. It is a bit swollen. Do you want me give it a shot of painkiller, sir?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;No. Save that damned shot, triple the dose, and give it to Joe, if he ever shows up. He is the big pain I need to get rid of, understand?&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;Yes sir,&quot; replies the doctor grinning.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">Suddenly two helicopters materialize overhead. One was a medivac, just in case the Chief needed hospital care. The other copter disgorged the still groggy Vice President.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;"> &quot;Where the hell are you Joe, when I need you?&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;You know darned well, where I am at this time of the day, just as I know where you are. To each his own. Me, and my nap, and you the golf course.&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;Crap, Joe, get serious. We are in deep doo doo again.&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;What do you mean, &lsquo;again,&#39; never knew we were out?&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;Get serious Joe, I said. This is serious. That damned Vladimir is at it again.&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;Who&#39;s Vladimir, BB (Big Barack; Big Boss)?&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;How many damned Vladimirs do you know?&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;Come to think of it, none.&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;Well think. Think hard.&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;Okay, BB, but give me time. To think, I need time.&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;Yeah, you always say give me time to think. Is that why they call you &lsquo;Slow Joe&#39;?&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;Well, people call you all kinds of names too, BB. But, I admit it. I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer and I am not all that dumb either. But, help me out. Give me a hint. Who is this damned Vladimir who has gotten you so agitated?&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;Putin. Putin, that&#39;s who.&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;Well, why didn&#39;t you say so? You mean the Russkie guy? Is his first name Vladimir? What is he up to now?&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;He has sent Russian forces into the Crimean Peninsula...&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;Did you say the Arabian Peninsula? No, no, we can&#39;t have that. You want me to call Admiral Johnson, at Okinawa, next door to the Arabian Peninsula, to take on the damned Russkies and expel them?&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;Joe, Joe. Don&#39;t want you do any damned thing. Just stick around and give the impression, public consumption you know, that we are right on the job together dealing with this crisis. The press is already here. Just look pensive and grit your teeth from time to time. But, Joe; be careful. Don&#39;t overdo it gritting your teeth. You might drop your dentures. Just do what I told you, I&#39;ll do the rest. Okay?&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;"> &quot;Yes, BB. Whatever you say.&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;Get that damned Putin on the phone,&quot; yells the President at one of his dozens of hangers-on.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">A half dozen suits scurry like rats that have seen a big cat to do what the Boss wanted done.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;Here you are, Mr. President,&quot; a beefy guy hands him a secure phone line saying, &quot;President Putin is on the line.&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;Hello, Vladimir, this is Barack.&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;Da&quot; a belligerent-sounding voice assaults the President&#39;s ear.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;I mean, this is President Obama calling.&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;Da?&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;No, it is not dad, it is Barack Obama.&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;Da?&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;God damn it, it is not dad, it is President of the United States of America. Your dad wouldn&#39;t be calling you on this secured line, would he? So, stop fooling around and talk sense.&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">The President hears some loud chuckles and a bunch of garbled talk that he surmised to be Russian, then &quot;Yes, President Putin hears you. He wants to know what you want. He is in the midst of stalking a tiger that he wishes to trap personally. He is not in a mood for any lengthy conversation. Can you call tomorrow?&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;Tomorrow? Okay, tell him to pull his goons out of the Crimean Peninsula by the time I call back tomorrow, Okay?&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">Big laughter hits the President&#39;s ear, so harshly that he forgets the pain of his little pinkie.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">Foaming profusely at the mouth, he suffers one of his stuttering attacks, seemed to be debating about something. Should he slam the phone on Joe&#39;s bald head standing next to him? That&#39;s what he really seemed he wanted to do-just by the way he was looking at Joe&#39;s head. But the television cameras were already rolling and the nation was glued to radios and televisions to see what the Commander in Chief was going to do about this naked aggression of the Russians.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">So, he reached a compromise and flung the phone into a puddle ten yards to his left.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">Tomorrow came none too soon for the President with Putin luxuriating in his tiger-hunting lodge on the phone.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;Hello Vladimir. I hope I am not messing up your tiger hunting. Hope you did get the cat, the way you wanted it. But, I want you to do what I want also.&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;Da?&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;Get your military out of Crimea. You and I are buddies. We work together trying to keep this damned world from going up in smoke. So, why start something like this? I mean, why in the hell you want to take over the darned place? It&#39;s a basket case and you know it. Why, why, why?&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">The Chief was stuttering again.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;See, I charitable. Vee like help basket case. We helped Georgia not long ago, nyet? Vee try help Afghanistan. No goodofsky people. No vant our help. Vee leave. You also trying help them, they kick your behind for thank you, da?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;"> &quot;Hey Vladimir, don&#39;t shit me, da? Get the hell out of Crimea or else...&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;You make me do things in my pants, fearing,&quot; followed with roaring laughter that sounded like the bark of a Husky with a bad case of laryngitis.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;"> &quot;Hey, not funny. I mean it. Get the hell out or costs to pay.&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;Vaat costs? Vanting to know. Vaat costs? Give me indication. I may change my mind if costs heavy.&quot; Again, a big laugh.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;"> &quot;Okay, no, no violence. I am a man of peace. I am not going to order our military to shove your boys into the isthmus. Sanctions. Sanctions are my trump cards. See how I have used them to prevent the Islamic Republic of Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons? I will use them against you. I have already started them...&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;Da, tell me vaatyou already doing. How you like my English? Ha? You speak no Russian. I speak English, ha ha ha.&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;No, I don&#39;t speak Russian and I don&#39;t intend to learn it. But, I want to learn you a lesson. I have already started the sanctions.&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;Vaat?&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;I have issued an executive order limiting the White House staff from eating Russian Caviar with their daily dinner to only four days a week. If that doesn&#39;t persuade you, I will completely ban the Caviar from the White House.&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;Nyet. That is no big. Vee sell Caviar to others. Vaat other sanctions you thinking, big-sanction President?&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;"> &quot;Well, there are a number of Russian restaurants in Washington. I personally patronize them from time to time. I will talk with the mayor and see if we can close three of them for failing to comply with our required sanitary standards.&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;You close three Russian restaurants, da?&quot; You must convince mayor to so doing? No problem. Vee close all McDonald grease spoons in all Russia. I no have talk to any mayor doing this.&quot; A huge roar of laughter.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;I told you Vladimir. These are for starters. I have ordered my staff to draw a list of other sanctions. They already have. We are going to sanction your cronies. The speaker of your parliament, your vice prime minister, and four others. Their assets will be frozen and they will not be permitted to travel to this country.&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;No problem Presidente! For every person you make black list, vee do two or maybe more. Crimea is Russia. Vee stay. Da? God judge the Bolsheviks. Giving Ukraine big part of south Mother Russia.&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;"> &quot;Listen Vladimir. Don&#39;t give me historical justifications for your adventurism. I am not interested in the past. Let&#39;s deal with the present. I am also getting our NATO allies to impose sanctions. How&#39;s that?&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;First. No call me Vladimir. I am Mr. Putin and Mr. President. Your NATO allies live on my energy giving them. They sanction Russia, they freeze and they factory stopping. Da? Goodbye. Have more important work. Must go hunt tigers.&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;The goddamn sonofabith.&quot; Obama fumes.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;Who?&quot; asks Joe.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">&quot;My uncle Fudge, Joe. That&#39;s who.&quot;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">Postscript.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">The Russians indeed started their tit-for-tat game of sanctions. For one, they blacklisted Senator John McCain. When the Senator was informed of it he mused, I guess that ruins my spring vacation in Siberia.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </p><div class="AuthorBio" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; clear: both; padding-top: 10px;"><div class="ThumbImgLeft"><span style="font-size:14px;"><img alt="" style="border: 0px; max-width: 200px; float: left; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px;" src="http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/imgLib/20110415_Imani_Amil_2011.jpg" /></span></div><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; clear: none; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:14px;">FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Amil Imani is an Iranian-American writer, poet, satirist, novelist, essayist, literary translator, public speaker and political analyst who has been writing and speaking out about the danger of radical Islam both in America and internationally. He has become a formidable voice in the United States against the danger of global jihad and Islamization of America. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; clear: none; font-style: italic;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; clear: none; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:14px;">He maintains a website at <a style="border: 0px; outline: 0px;" href="http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/www.amilimani.com">www.amilimani.com</a>.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; clear: none; font-style: italic;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; clear: none; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:14px;">Imani is the author of the riveting book <a style="border: 0px; outline: 0px;" href="http://www.amazon.com/Obama-meets-Ahmadinejad-Amil-Imani/dp/1926800028/">Obama Meets Ahmadinejad</a> and the thriller <a style="border: 0px; outline: 0px;" href="http://freeamericanpress.com/">Operation Persian Gulf</a>.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; clear: none; font-style: italic;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; clear: none; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:14px;">Imani has been educating Americans regarding the danger of radical Islam, and has encouraged democracy for Iran and helping the Iranian people. His numerous articles about radical Islam have been published in many newspapers and magazines around the world as well as in thousands of Internet magazines, websites and blogs. Imani&#39;s writings can be found on his website Amilimani.com. He is a regular go-to-guy on the Iranian issues on BBC World News. He is also 2010 honoree of EMET: &quot;the Speaker of the Truth Award&quot; at the Capitol Hill.</span></p></div>Sat, 22 Mar 2014 06:08:00 +0100Vladimir PutinUkraineSatireRussiansRussiaPutinPresident ObamaParodyNATOJoe BidenhuntingCrimeaAmil ImaniHappy Persian New Yearhttp://amilimani.com/index.php/archives/post/happy-persian-new-year
<img height="72" align="left" src=""><p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="alignleft" alt="persian-nowruz" style="margin: 10px; float: left;" width="430" height="256" src="http://www.amilimani.com/images/content/gallery/nowruz-2/persian-nowruz.jpg" />Once again Nowruz--the ancient Persian Festival of the New Year--is here. Nowruz is the celebration of renewal and regeneration of life. Nowruz is the bearer of glad tidings for a better year ahead for all of humankind. It is in the spirit of Nowruz that Persians, as well as many other ethnic co-celebrators, greet one another with good wishes and extend a hand of friendship to all. <!--more-->It is in the spirit of Nowruz that I offer my sincere best wishes to everyone, with particular humility to those magnificent prisoners of conscience who are languishing in the dungeons of the Islamic Republic of Iran instead of celebrating the occasion in the bosom of their families and their loved-ones.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">May the Persian New Year be a year of freedom, justice, and well-being for all. May every day of the Persian New Year glow with good words, shine with good thoughts and be filled with good deeds. <img alt="happy-nowruz" style="margin: 10px; float: left;" src="http://www.amilimani.com/images/content/gallery/nowruz/hapy-nowruz.jpg" /> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Amil Imani is the author of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Obama-meets-Ahmadinejad-Amil-Imani/dp/1926800028/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1">Obama Meets Ahmadinejad</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Operation-Persian-Gulf-Amil-Imani/dp/0983690901/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1317324420&amp;sr=8-3">Operation Persian Gulf.</a></p>Thu, 20 Mar 2014 19:36:23 +0100Persian New YearPersian FestivalNowruz